interstitial cystitis – ic and other bladder problems

Hey! I am a 24 years old girl with no previous health problem. One day in January 2023 I experienced a permanent feeling that I had to pee with no relief after urinating. I have this feeling all the seconds of my life since that day. Every day is the same no flares.I remember having anxiety and...

TL;DR: Urethra pressure and urgency for the past month, making me very anxious. Looking for advice on how I can better accept TMS and resolve the issue through emotional awareness, and specifically a feeling of ‘incomplete’ certainty that it’s not a ‘structural’ diagnosis. A specific fear of sex...

My TMS recovery story is long and complicated, but I wanted to share it because I've recovered from more forms of TMS than most people ever experience! It started in my mid-twenties with TMJ pain as well as back and neck pain, and going to the chiropractor and doing PT helped sometimes. Then...

I am having trouble navigating this site. I have come here several times looking for support and help with tms and pelvic bladder and sciatic pain. I google the above and it directs me to this site which I usually give up because I can not search specifically. I have read two books by Steven...

I am posting to give hope to anyone that thinks they may have TMS pain. I have had symptoms due to TMS since I was 13, looking back however of course they were diagnosed as something else. Each time it gets easier and faster to recover now that I have the tools. I recovered from back and...

Hi all, I have been doing TMS work since 2005 when I successfully rid myself of all my back and neck pain. I am 50 and in shape, and occasionally get new TMS symptoms, and those include knee cartilage pain which I ignore, golfer's elbow, occasional bouts of month long eyelid twitches, and...

I'm definitely doing this less than I once was. At one time I was participating daily in groups for interstitial cystitis. I dropped them all, but I still sometimes scroll through posts on another site for folks with this diagnosis. When I have some moments of worsening symptoms I think it will...

i am not sure if I am posting this in the correct spot because I am new to this website. I am wondering if burning urination is tms. I have no uti (hopefully because all the cultures I take are negativek) I also get stabs of nerve pain in my urethra and clieral area and up onto my bladder...

I’ve had interstitial cystitis since the middle 90s. At first I didn’t know what it was, and I never went to a doctor because I was into spiritual healing. However, after many years this problem didn’t yield. I knew it was cystitis because a friend of mine had it and described her symptoms to...

Written by Dr. Schubiner on November 26, 2009 One of the great books of the twentieth century is Victor Frankel’s, Man’s Search for Meaning. In the book, he describes the need we have to understand why things happen. When someone gets sick, one of the first questions asked is, “Why did this...

One morning, I woke up, stepped out of bed, and keeled over from agonizing pain. I was no stranger to pain, as I’d had searing pelvic pain from Interstitial Cystitis for years. This, however, was a different searing pelvic pain. I picked up the phone and called 911. Pain is a powerful...

In this link Dr Schubiner is interviewed by Abigail Steidley about pelvic pain & he gives very good reasons & evidence as to why he thinks this is most definitely a mindbody syndrome. He answers questions many of us have about IC, vulvodynia, PN etc. such as How do we know that the pain is MBS...

Hi folks, Periodically, we get questions about pelvic pain here on the forum, and I often refer people to Abigail Steidley since she had it herself and recovered using books by Dr. Sarno and Schubiner. I'm on her mailing list and it looks like there is a teleseminar hosted by one of her...

It started on 14th August 2012, since then I've had many different variations of pelvic/bladder pain and have been diagnosed with pudendal neuralgia. The drugs that I have been prescribed have not cured the problem, a nerve block made it worse and the only thing I have been offered is another...